I have been doing some a lot of reading lately about gold and one of the articles I stumbled upon opened with this 1952 story of Mississippi House of Representatives member Noah S. “Soggy” Sweat, Jr.’s position on whiskey.

I share it here for your entertainment:

If you mean whiskey, the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being. Continue reading →